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  59. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

‘I’ve got a stall,’ I said at last, which was code for asking for a discount.

He narrowed his eyes at the box and then reached under the table for a ledger. He examined it for a minute and flipped it shut. ‘Twenty-five.’

He caught me looking at him and smiled. He carried on staring, but now with such an intensity, head slung at an angle, that I couldn’t move.

‘Just take a breath,’ he’d said.

And I bought the car. He’d got into my head.

It could be him, the man on the bridge. That’s how he knew me. That’s why he was so familiar.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To Mama without whose prayers and support nothing good that came my way would ever have reached me. Thank you for everything you gave me without counting any of it. Thank you for life. And for love. And for more than I will ever know. I love you.

To Dad who wanted me to read – always – to make up for the reading that wouldn’t come to him. Thank you for the stories. And for that smile. And for being proud whether I deserved it or not. We will come to you one day not too far away.

To Sadia, my wife. My life. And the third best lawyer in the World. Thank you for all that faith that you somehow still have in me. Thank you for the daily blessings you bring into my life. I love you. One day I will repay you with twenty-two point two million somethings. What those somethings are though is not yet clear. I’m beginning to think it might not be pounds. I really hope by now you’re getting some sleep though I’m not hugely optimistic. Thank you for your belief and your ideas and that believable optimism that you infect everything with. I couldn’t do any of this without you. I wouldn’t want to.

To my brothers and sisters, Kash, Omer, Khurrum and Aiysha. I miss you all. To me each of you is a compass point that helps me find my place in the world. Thank you.

Now to the ones who make this thing happen … the Book GIANTS.

To the matchless Camilla, my agent. If my first draft had been a portrait then Camilla was the one who said, gently, ‘you know I feel that we should stick to having just the two eyes. And maybe lose the third arm. And add a nose. Definitely add a nose. And a neck.’ Thank you for making the book recognisable. And of course, for all the championing you do and do so well. I couldn’t have asked for a better guide and friend to navigate that water filled with all those sharks!